Dou Wei
Encyclopedia
Dou Wei is a Chinese
musician
, singer-songwriter
and composer
. Dou Wei is a multi-instrumentalist
and produces music across many genres. He first came to prominence as a member of the heavy rock group Black Panther (Hei Bao, 黑豹). His album Dark Dreams draws influences from The Cure
and Bauhaus
, was a landmark album in the Chinese rock
scene and gained strong popularity. Followed by Sunny Days and Mountain River
, Dou Wei explored new frontiers in electronic and ambience. From there on, Dou Wei's music took the direction of ambience, folk
and post-rock
. His two last vocal album Acousma and Rainy Murmur with the E band draws influence from the UK post-rock
group Bark Psychosis
. Since then Dou Wei's music became more improvisational
and he has consistently collaborated with others and formed the group Indefinite.
Dou Wei has two daughters: one named Dou Jingtong (born January 3, 1997), born to his ex-wife, Chinese pop singer Faye Wong
, and the other one born to his ex-wife, photographer Gao Yuan.
On May 10, 2006, Dou was arrested after storming the office of the Beijing News newspaper's editorial department, destroying a computer keyboard and a DVD player, and pouring water on editors in the office, before setting fire to a car's boot parked in front of the newspaper's office building. Dou claimed that his actions had been justified by the actions of an anonymous Beijing News reporter, whom Dou accused of publishing what he believed to be falsified news about Dou and his second wife, Gao Yuan.
BAND ALBUMS
COMPILATIONS
COOPERATIONS
OTHER ALBUMS
Dou Wei & Dreaming: guest featuring in the movie "Beijing Bastard" (北京杂种)
China
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musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
. Dou Wei is a multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
and produces music across many genres. He first came to prominence as a member of the heavy rock group Black Panther (Hei Bao, 黑豹). His album Dark Dreams draws influences from The Cure
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...
and Bauhaus
Bauhaus
', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...
, was a landmark album in the Chinese rock
Chinese rock
Chinese Rock , occasionally referred as Mandorock or Cantorock depending on the language of the song in question, is commonly used to describe a wide variety of forms of rock and roll music, in connection with the rock bands...
scene and gained strong popularity. Followed by Sunny Days and Mountain River
Mountain River
The Mountain River is a tributary of the Mackenzie River in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Its source is in the Mackenzie Mountains close to the watershed border with Yukon Territory. It flows eastward, joining the Mackenzie River just south of the Arctic Circle...
, Dou Wei explored new frontiers in electronic and ambience. From there on, Dou Wei's music took the direction of ambience, folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
and post-rock
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
. His two last vocal album Acousma and Rainy Murmur with the E band draws influence from the UK post-rock
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
group Bark Psychosis
Bark Psychosis
Bark Psychosis are an English post-rock band/musical project from east London formed in 1986. They were one of the bands that Simon Reynolds cited when coining "post-rock" as a musical style in 1994, and are thus considered one of the key bands defining the genre...
. Since then Dou Wei's music became more improvisational
Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians...
and he has consistently collaborated with others and formed the group Indefinite.
Dou Wei has two daughters: one named Dou Jingtong (born January 3, 1997), born to his ex-wife, Chinese pop singer Faye Wong
Faye Wong
Faye Wong is a highly successful and influential Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva . Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong . Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing...
, and the other one born to his ex-wife, photographer Gao Yuan.
On May 10, 2006, Dou was arrested after storming the office of the Beijing News newspaper's editorial department, destroying a computer keyboard and a DVD player, and pouring water on editors in the office, before setting fire to a car's boot parked in front of the newspaper's office building. Dou claimed that his actions had been justified by the actions of an anonymous Beijing News reporter, whom Dou accused of publishing what he believed to be falsified news about Dou and his second wife, Gao Yuan.
Discography
SOLO ALBUMS- 1995 Sunny Days (艳阳天)
- 1998 Mountain River (山河水)
- 2004 Eight Fragments (八段锦) (recorded between 1995 and 2003)
BAND ALBUMS
- 1991 Hei Bao (Panther,黑豹) with Black Panther
- 1994 Dark Dreams (黑梦) with Dreaming
- 1999 Acousma (幻听) E Band
- 2000 Rainy Murmur (雨吁) E Band (demo)
- 2002 Gloriette by Water (水亭) Mu Liang Wen Wang
- 2003 One Stone, Two Birds (壹举·两得) with Indefinite (不一定) (recorded in 2001)
- 2003 Mu Liang Wen Wang (暮良文王) Mu Liang Wen Wang
- 2004 The Story Between the Mirror and Flowers (镜花缘记) with FM3FM3FM3 is the Beijing-based music duo of Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian. They are considered among the pioneers of electronic music in China.. Since 1999, Virant and Jian have been making meditative music by combining the sound of Chinese classical instruments with modern digital techniques.Their...
(Zhang Jian + Christiaan Virant) - 2004 Three States, Four Scores (三国·四记) with Indefinite (不一定)
- 2004 Wuque Liuyan (五鹊·六雁) with Indefinite (不一定)
- 2004 Live On (相相生) Mu Liang Wen Wang (recorded in 2002)
- 2004 Qiguo Shengdan (期过圣诞) with Indefinite (不一定) (live at Shenzhen, recorded in 2001)
- 2005 Shan Dou Ji Shi Ye (山豆几石页) Mu Liang Wen Wang
- 2005 Ji Ran Pin Qi Guo (祭然品气国) Mu Liang Wen Wang
- 2005 Ba He (八和) with Indefinite (不一定)
- 2005 Jiu Sheng (九生) with Indefinite (不一定)
- 2006 Shui Xian Hou Gu Qing Feng Yue (水先后古清风乐) with Indefinite (不一定) (live at ARK Bar, Shanghai, recorded in 2005)
- 2006 Pilgrimage to the East (东游记) (recorded in 2005)
- 2006 Rainy Murmur (雨吁) with E Band (recorded in 2000)
- 2006 Hou Guan Yin (后观音) with FM3FM3FM3 is the Beijing-based music duo of Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian. They are considered among the pioneers of electronic music in China.. Since 1999, Virant and Jian have been making meditative music by combining the sound of Chinese classical instruments with modern digital techniques.Their...
(Zhang Jian + Christiaan Virant) - 2007 Ah Song Zhu Ah Ji (松阿珠阿吉) with Indefinite (不一定)
- 2007 35651 (35651) with Indefinite (不一定)
- 2007 Zorro in China (佐罗在中国) with Indefinite (不一定)
- 2008 Wu Yin Huan Yue (五音环乐) with Indefinite (不一定) and Inequable (不一样)
COMPILATIONS
- 1995 track Lord (主) Various Artists Chinese Fire II (中国火II)
- 1997 track Gracious Trill (婉啼) Various Artists Farewell Zhang Ju (再见张炬)
- 1999 track The Grand Joss House (大庙): Various Artists Chinese Fire III (中国火III)
COOPERATIONS
- 1994 composer & co-arrange for Faye Wong's "Vow" (誓言)
- 1994 arrange for "Di-DarDi-DarDi-Dar is an album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong.Released in December 1995, towards the end of her recording contract with Cinepoly Records, this is Faye Wong's last Cantonese album....
" - 1994 arrange for "Please Myself" (讨好自己)Ingratiate OneselfIngratiate Oneself is a 1994 album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong.Cinepoly Records released this album in December, only a few months after her highly influential alternative music Cantonese album Random Thoughts and her second Mandarin Chinese album...
- 1996 producer & song-arrange for ("Fickleness" 浮躁Fu Zao (Faye Wong album)Fu Zao is a 1996 album by the C-pop singer Faye Wong; the Chinese title is variously translated into English as Restless, Impatience, Anxiety and other similar words. The Japanese release included the English translation Anxiety on the obi strip.Many consider it her boldest and most artistically...
) - 1998 arrange for "Kid" (童)Scenic Tour (Faye Wong album)Scenic Tour is an 1998 album by Beijing-based C-pop singer Faye Wong. It includes 10 tracks in Mandarin, with 3 bonus Cantonese tracks.Scenic Tour is also the first Chinese album recorded in HDCD techniques...
- 2001 producer, composer & arrange for "Lamp Whisper Demo" (灯语demo)
OTHER ALBUMS
Dou Wei & Dreaming: guest featuring in the movie "Beijing Bastard" (北京杂种)
- 1999 OST: "My Favourite Snowy Days" (我最中意的雪天)
- 2001 OST: "Dazzling" (花眼)
- 2001 OST: "Seeking the Gun" (寻枪)
- 2001 Musical Drama "Story Between the Mirror and Flowers" (镜·花·缘)
- 2001 composer for the TV documentary: "Huang Xing, a prominent figure during Chinese Revolution of 1911" (百年任务·黄兴)
- 2001 Dou Wei & the Not Sure Yet: master & improvisational performance for "The Transparent Box" (透明的盒子)
- 2002 "Rekindled Story Between the Mirror and Flowers" (再续镜·花·缘)
External links
- Dou Wei · Huan Shui Meng Tian (Chinese and English)
- Chinese Rock Database: Dou Wei (Japanese)
- Dou Wei page from Rock in China wiki